From Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby to Shelley's Frankenstein, The Literature Book documents the greatest literature ever written. Featuring over 100 best-selling books, plays and poetry from all over the world, including Latin American and African...

'This concise and lucid volume offers a satisfying survey of all the major theories, from structuralism in the 1960s to deconstruction today, that have made academic criticism both intriguing and off-putting to the outsider.' --New York Times Book...

What sort of thing is a lyric poem? An intense expression of subjective experience? The fictive speech of a specifiable persona? Theory of the Lyric reveals the limitations of these two conceptions of the lyric--the older Romantic model and the...

During the twentieth century, at the height of the independence movement and after, Indian literary writing in English was entrusted with the task of consolidating the image of a unified, seemingly caste-free, modernising India for consumption both...

A beautifully rendered memoir about creative beginnings in the vein of Umberto Eco's classic Confessions of a Young Novelist The Education of a Young Poet is David Biespiel's moving account of his awakening to writing and the language that can shape...

In 1977, twenty years after the publication of his landmark poem 'Howl,' and Jack Kerouac's seminal book On the Road, Allen Ginsberg decided it was time to teach a course on the literary history of the Beat Generation. Through the creation of this...

In a book that comparesVirginia Woolf's writing with that of the novelist, actress, and feminist activist Elizabeth Robins (1862-1952), Molly Hite explores the fascinating connections between Woolf's aversion to women's 'pleading a cause' in fiction...

The Essential Goethe is the most comprehensive and representative one-volume collection of Goethe's writings ever published in English. It provides English-language readers easier access than ever before to the widest range of work by one of the...

A pioneer of LGBTQ studies dares to suggest that gayness is a way of being that gay men must learn from one another to become who they are. This book traces gay men's cultural difference to the social meaning of style.

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy presents fifty-four essays by a range of scholars from all parts of the world. Together these essays offer readers a fresh and comprehensive understanding of Shakespeare tragedies as both works of...

The curious paradox of romance is that, throughout its history, this genre has been dismissed as trivial and unintellectual, yet people have never ceased to flock to it with enthusiasm and even fervor. In contemporary contexts, we devour popular...

The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities. The category of 'the literary' has always...

Excerpt from Heine: Selections From the Reisebilder and Other Prose Works But the earlier date seems to be correct, so far as can be ascertained, for the Dusseldorf registers were destroyed by fire early in the century. He was the eldest son of...

Excerpt from Select Remains of the Ancient Popular and Romance Poetry of Scotland As stated in the above passage, Lockhart met with young Laing when in Holland, where the latter went annually for the purpose of purchasing foreign books - his father...

Excerpt from Heine's Prose: With Introduction and Notes The present volume has derived advantages during its preparation by comparison with the excellent editions of Buchheim and Elster. I desire also to acknowledge grate fully my indebtedness to...

Excerpt from Les Marionnettes de la Vie About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books...

Excerpt from An Essay on the Application of Natural History to Poetry Sea the bithop Of Oxford's truly claﬂical and ingenious Prclcﬂians on Sacred Poetry. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books....

Excerpt from Bibliotheca Britannica, or a General Index to British and Foreign Literature, Vol. 1: In Two Parts; Authors In the first part of the work, the Authors are arranged in alphabetical order, and under each is given a chronological list of...

Excerpt from Heine's Prose: With Introduction and Notes The purpose of this volume is to make more accessible to advanced students of German the models of style which are contained abundantly in Heine's prose works. The guid ing principle in the...

In this second edition of the remarkable, and now classic, cultural history of black women's beauty, Venus in the Dark, Janell Hobson explores the enduring figure of the 'Hottentot Venus' and the history of critical and artistic responses to her by...

Excerpt from Heine's Prose: With Introduction and Notes The purpose of this volume is to make more accessible to advanced students of German the models of style which are contained abundantly in Heine's prose works. The guid ing principle in the...

The Stranger is a rite of passage for readers around the world. Since its publication in France in 1942, Camus's novel has been translated into sixty languages and sold more than six million copies. It's the rare novel that's as at likely to be found...

Excerpt from George Meredith: A Primer to the Novels Readers of Meredith over the fence. A brief sketch of his general aims and method has been prefixed, but any exposition of his cardinal ideas must be sought elsewhere. All that has been attempted...